Blue sunset [Mark Steyn]
I've been wondering when the lefties will get hep to the demographic jive. Step forward Mark Morford, The San Francisco Chronicle's in-house hedonist of inexhaustible appetites, who's penned a characteristically thoughtful analysis of why "red-staters are breeding like drunken ferrets":
"Among the right-wing God-lovin' set, there is often little real awareness of planetary health or resource abuse or the notion that birth control is actually a very, very good idea indeed, and therefore it's completely natural to worship at the altar of minivans and SUVs and megachurches and massive all-American entitlement and have little qualm about popping out six, seven, 19 gloopy tots to populate the world with frat boys and Ford F-150 buyers and food court managers.
I always assumed it might actually be a good thing that conservatives breed so mindlessly, because all those unhappy neocon kids, all those repressed misled tots grow up and eventually begin to (well, sometimes) think for themselves and ultimately do what any good kid does: rebel against their parents' silly dogma and become a bit more open-minded and hopeful, right?
Not exactly. Apparently, according to the research, four out of five kids actually stick with the political affiliation of their parents, generation after generation, with religious conservatives far more unlikely than their liberal brethren to allow their kids to develop the capacity for independent thought (given how it's so, you know, dangerous to America). Also, one word: homeschooling. I'm just sayin'."
In the years ahead, Mr Morford may well find that all those F-150-driving food court managers are all that stand between his preferred life of "large grass-fed free-range organic hybrid vibrators" and a far more motivated demographic tide.
Still, he's to be congratulated on grasping the essentials: in a democratic world, you can't buck demography. And, as Ed Driscoll notes, San Francisco already has the fewest children of any major US city.
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